Holy crap.

More than 420,000 houses collapsed in Qingchuan County in southwest China after two aftershocks hit the region, already devastated by the country's deadliest earthquake in 32 years, state-run Xinhua News Agency said.

A magnitude-5.7 quake hit at 4:37 p.m. today in the region, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. A 5.2-magnitude aftershock hit about half an hour earlier, USGS said. Both occurred north east of Wenchuan, the epicenter of the May 12 earthquake, with the larger quake centered 250 kilometers southwest of Xi'an, the home of the terracotta warriors.


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